But DLC need not always be associated with paying extra for content that should've been on the disc, or worse, paying extra for content that is on the disc. Runners-Up: Tony Hawk: RIDE, Velvet Assassin Best Add-On Fallout 3 - Point Lookout Whether you like it or not, downloadable content is a video-game fact of life these days.
This quick look was the last time any of us could muster the necessary self-loathing to play this hideous game, and frankly, we probably deserve some kind of award for making it that far. This is an ugly, tedious, stupid, mean-spirited, and profoundly unfunny game, and it should speak volumes that, unlike the other two nominees here, we couldn't bring ourselves to play enough of Box Office Bust to render a proper review. It's such a repugnant concoction, it makes 2004's ill-conceived Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude look like a fun, appealing take on the Leisure Suit Larry franchise by comparison. It's hard to tell who the game despises more, its own characters-most of who feature regrettable celebrity voices-or the player, who it punishes with infuriating controls and desolate open-world settings that seem to exist purely for the purpose of padding the experience with lots of needless running. Instead you get some lazy approximation of a cliche-ridden Hollywood send-up, filled with grotesque characters spitting venomous lines at each other.
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Not that the cheeky Leisure Suit Larry series has ever been freely associated with the upper crust of anything, but Box Office Bust lacks any of the playfulness or deliberately corny sexual innuendo that gave the Al Lowe-era adventure games their charm. By this logic, the worst games of today should seem like handcrafted gems compared to the worst games of 10 years ago, but Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is indisputable proof that we've still got a long way to go.
Games and the people who play them have both become more sophisticated, and the standards for game design processes and quality assurance have come a long way. Either way, we've got our eyes on you, shifty, no-good helicopters! Runners-Up: Zoran Lazarevic - Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Doviculus - Brutal Legend Worst Game of the Year Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust In a perverse sort of way, this is one of our most technically challenging awards to give out. Then again, isn't it just a little too coincidental that some of the biggest, most memorable games of 2009 featured these hovering hate machines, including 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, Modern Warfare 2, Prototype, Shadow Complex, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine? More likely, these are all cautionary tales meant to warn us against the evils of non-fixed-wing aircraft. Maybe it's just one of those weird serendipitous things, like when you get two asteroid movies coming out back-to-back the same summer, or maybe it speaks to society's latent fear and distrust of unnatural flying contraptions, but there was just a volume of memorable enemy helicopter encounters in games this year.
No disrespect to either Uncharted 2's Lazarevic or Brutal Legend's Doviculus-easily two of the most effectively menacing villains we've seen in a game this year, and two gentlemen we would never want to make the mistake of disrespecting-but 2009 was simply a banner year for antagonistic helicopters. Runners-Up: Majesty 2, Drakensang: The Dark Eye Best Villain Helicopters
Cryostasis' ending alone scores five out of five stars on the only criteria you need to win this category. That game's frigid mystery and unusual story line seemed a bit off while we played, but then we got to the ending, and well. The best of the bunch this year was Cryostasis, a Ukrainian-developed first-person shooter that allowed you to jump into the past lives of fallen comrades while investigating a derelict ship. These Eastern Bloc games not only share a loose geopolitical bond but also come with fiercely original ideas and technology that while not always coherent, are creeping onto Western store shelves at an alarming rate thanks to Russian publishers like 1C. If you like audiobooks as much as you like lists, check out our companion podcast to today's awards for the best of both worlds! Dave Snider's Eastern Bloc Game of the Year Brought To You By Dave Snider Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason If you didn't know by now, our designer Dave believes the best thing to come out of the the former Soviet Union was not potato vodka and perestroika, but odd and original games like Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason.
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